Concussing Quotes & Sayings

War was about yawning chasms of inactivity, punctuated by brief, screaming interludes of action. And in those brief, screaming interludes, events happened both quickly and with dreamlike slowness, every instant burned into memory. — Alastair Reynolds

Nobody can guard Kobe one-on-one. Nobody. — Del Harris

When God answers your prayers and sends down his blessings to you in prosperity, thank him by helping those in need. There's is no greater way to be thankful than helping to brighten humanity! — Timothy Pina

I didn't come in here to argue with a woman with big hair — Jayne Ann Krentz

The serpent is helpless unless he finds an apple to work with. — George Ade

It was toffee; they were advertising toffee, a nursemaid told Rezia. Together they spell t ... o ... f ...
"K ... R ... " said the nursemaid, and Septimus heard her say "Kay Arr" close to his ear, deeply, softly, like a mellow organ, but with a roughness in her voice like a grasshopper's, which rasped his spine deliciously and sent running up into his brain waves of sound which, concussing, broke. A marvellous discovery indeed - that the human voice in certain atmospheric conditions (for one must be scientific, above all scientific) can quicken trees into life! — Virginia Woolf

For the will and not the gift makes the giver. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

I tried to smile back. Now, don't get me wrong. Sam Carroll wasn't a creep or a bully or anything. It's just that he was... well, he was Sam Carroll, for goodness' sake. I'd only known him for forever and he'd only followed me around for even longer. — Rachel Coker

A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world ... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa. — S. Jay Olshansky

Hanajima, my spear! Bring me my spear! — Natsuki Takaya